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Egyptian Pharaoh

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The Encyclopedia of the Egyptian Pharaohs, Volume I: Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty (3300-1069 BC)
by Darrell D. Baker
A comprehensive guide to the known rulers of ancient Egypt from 3300-1069 B.C. Includes an alphabetized list of all known pharaohs through the Twentieth Dynasty. Each entry includes: a brief biography of the reign; tomb location and number (if known); location of known mummies; chief consorts (if known); hieroglyphs and transliterations of each form of the pharaoh's name; pertinent biographical references. In addition, the encyclopedia contains a ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$60.00, Our Price US$40.00

Pharaonic King-Lists, Annals and Day-Books
by Donald B. Redford
This is a classic study into the Egyptians' use of the past, focusing on the pictures and texts common in Ancient Egypt showing groupings of kings. The author discusses the genesis and development of the "king list" tradition, following a tradition over ...
Paperback. Price US$45.00
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$60.00, Our Price US$50.00


Tutankhamun: Eternal Splendour of Boy Pharaoh
by T.G.H. James
Howard Carter's discovery - the intact royal burial of Tutankhamun - ranks amongst the greatest archaeological triumphs of all time. The boy king's golden funerary mask is perhaps the most celebrated single masterpiece from the ancient world, but his tomb, largely undisturbed when Carter cut through the priestly door-seals in 1922, was filled with a wealth of other less well-known objects, mostly designed for the king's enjoyment in the ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$75.00, Our Price US$24.98


Crown of Arsinoë II: The Creation of an Image of Authority
by Maria Nilsson
The Crown of Arsinoë II is a detailed study of a unique crown that was created for the Ptolemaic Egyptian Queen Arsinoë II which has important conclusions for ancient Egyptian history. Images of Arsinoë are represented in a broad spectrum of iconographic media, depicting this historical figure in a Greek as well as Egyptian cultural setting, and as queen and goddess alike, though her tomb has never been found. Based on detailed ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$110.00, Our Price US$82.00


Tutankhamun's Footwear: Studies of Ancient Egyptian Footwear
by André J. Veldmeijer
The discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb by Howard Carter in 1922 is one of the most significant archaeological discoveries of all time. It took Carter and his team 10 years to clear the contents of the tomb and among the objects found was a large collection of shoes and sandals. The footwear is analysed here in detail for the first time since the discovery using Carter's records and Harry Burton's excellent photographs along with the author's ...
Paperback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price US$140.00


Cleopatra
by Pat Southern
This book describes the critically acclaimed life of the infamous Queen of Egypt. Cleopatra was intimately involved in the critical years that saw the Roman Republic transformed into the Roman Empire. How this transition appeared to the Queen of Egypt - and the part she played in it - is the subject of Pat Southern's engrossing new biography. Descended from the first Ptolemy, one of the companions of Alexander the Great, Cleopatra was the last in ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price US$17.95, Our Price US$4.98


The Rough Guide to Tutankhamun: The King, The Treasure, The Dynasty
by Michael Haag
The new exhibition Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs offers a unique insight into the art, wealth and powerof Egypt's New Kingdom. This Rough Guide provides all the background, with compelling details on the treasures and their discovery.


Who was Tutankhamun? From the opulence and riches of the royal court at Thebes, to the cult of the god Amun and the great heresy of Akhenaten, the extraordinary era of Tutankhamun's ...

Paperback. Publisher's Price US$9.99, Our Price US$4.98


Tierkulte im pharaonischen Ägypten und im Kulturvergleich
edited by Martin Fitzenreiter
Papers of a conference hold in Berlin in 2002. The cult of divine animals is one of the most prominent features of Egyptian culture. Several authors discuss different aspects of animal cults in ancient Egypt, and also South Asia and Africa.

Contents: Martin Fitzenreiter, Einleitung; Dieter Kessler, Tierische Missverständnisse: Grundsätzliches zu Fragen des Tierkultes; Stefan Grunert, Die Schächtung im Totenopfer - ...

Paperback. Publisher's Price US$65.00, Our Price US$52.00


The Pyramid Builder: Cheops, the Man behind the Great Pyramid
by Christine El Mahdy
The Egyptians who built the Great Pyramids at Giza would be horrified if they could see what was left of their great building project - the rubble infill! In this reassessment of the life and deeds of the Fourth Dynasty king Cheops, Christine el Mahdy argues that the pyramids we see today have been robbed of their facing stones and are merely the remains of the infill. Besides this, she presents a series of more novel findings about Cheops, his ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$45.00, Our Price US$14.98
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$45.00, Our Price US$19.98


Mysterious Death of Tutankhamun
by Paul Doherty
The Boy-king Tutankhamun came to the throne during one of the most turbulent periods of Egyptian history, a time when religious dissent threatened to sever the unity built up by a line of war-like pharaohs and even to shatter a far-flung empite. He should have lived out a long and prosperous reign before journeying into the Far West-and yet he was dead by the age eighteen. 272p (Carroll & Graf Publishers 2003)
Paperback. Price US$5.98

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